As the global population and global wealth both continue to increase, so will the demand for
livestock products, especially those that are highly nutritious. However, competition with …

The increasing size of the human population is projected to result in an increase in meat
consumption. However, at the same time, the dominant position of meat as the center of …

Temperature and humidity levels above a certain threshold decrease milk production in
dairy cattle, and genetic variation is associated with the amount of lost production. To enable …

Dairy cow longevity combines all functional traits and is thought to be especially important in
organic production, which is an established, increasing part of Swedish dairy production …

In dairy cattle, resistance, tolerance and resilience refer to the adaptation ability to a broad
range of environmental conditions, implying stable performances (eg production level …

Background At the current price, the use of high-density single nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNP) genotyping assays in genomic selection of dairy cattle is limited to applications …

Dairying in Australia is practiced in highly diverse climatic conditions and production
systems, which means that re-ranking of genotypes could occur across environments that …

In livestock, genotype× environment interaction (G× E) has been widely investigated, with
genotype defined at the level of subspecies, breeds, individual animals within a breed (for …

The genetic architecture of complex traits in cattle includes very large numbers of loci
affecting any given trait. Most of these loci have small effects but occasionally there are loci …

The world has been warming as greenhouse gases accumulate. Worldwide from 1880 to
2012, the average surface temperature has increased by about 0.85° C and by 0.12° C per …